Category: Personal

Four Hour Body diet update — five months in

Four Hour Body diet update — five months in

| May 31, 2012 | 1 Reply

It’s now been five months since I started following the Four Hour Body diet — here’s my original post on the subject, from two weeks in. Where do things stand now? Well, they stand pretty well. As of this morning (5/31), I am down 26.5 lbs from where I started. My blood pressure has gone […]

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Four Hour Body diet — week 9

Four Hour Body diet — week 9

| March 3, 2012 | Reply

I continue to make progress, even though I didn’t do nearly as much exercising as I should have this week. Still, I’ve lost 20.1 lbs out of my initial goal of 30 lbs, and I still have 7 weeks to go. The steady loss is all the more impressive when you consider that my Cheat […]

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Four Hour Body diet — week 8

Four Hour Body diet — week 8

| February 25, 2012 | Reply

I am definitely off that plateau, probably thanks in large part to my daily mile-long walks up and down the driveway. At this point, halfway towards my goal date, I’ve lost 18.6 lbs (of my goal total of 30 lbs), including another 2 lbs this past week. I’ll probably add one extra driveway “lap” (= […]

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Four Hour Body diet — week 7

Four Hour Body diet — week 7

| February 18, 2012 | 1 Reply

  I spent most of the last three weeks bouncing against a weight plateau, with my weight going up and down over a 3- to 4-lb range; checking around on the ‘net indicated that this isn’t unusual. Complicating things was that I spent eight days on the road (with my wife), visiting family in Utah […]

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Four Hour Body diet — week 4

Four Hour Body diet — week 4

| January 28, 2012 | Reply

Saturday (Cheat Day) morning; lost 1.2 lbs since last week, making a total of 15.4 lbs since I started just over four weeks ago. Still very happy with my meals, still eating better (e.g., more green leafies and veggies on a daily basis) than I have in years. And for those intermittent cravings, I still […]

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Four Hour Body diet — week 3

Four Hour Body diet — week 3

| January 21, 2012 | Reply

  Another week, another Cheat Day, a few more pounds gone. I weighed in this morning at 2.2 lbs less than than last week; if I can keep losing 1-2 lbs/week, I will be very happy indeed. I did again gain 4 lbs the morning after Cheat Day last week, which means my weight is […]

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The Four-Hour Body diet: an early report

The Four-Hour Body diet: an early report

| January 14, 2012 | 2 Replies

Some months back, I ordered a copy of The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss, probably due to a mention on some other blog. After it arrived, it sat with 20 or so other books on my nightstand, unopened. However, some family members in other states started following Ferriss’s ‘slow carb’ diet from the book […]

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So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

| October 5, 2011 | 3 Replies

The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving […]

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For those of you wondering…

For those of you wondering…

| September 14, 2011 | Reply

…here’s where I come out on the Political Compass Test.  About where I’d figured, given the questions.  ..bruce w..

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Deacon (1993-2011)

Deacon (1993-2011)

| June 23, 2011 | Reply

Sandra and I didn’t expect to end up with a new dog of our own when we took her sister Betty Jo to look at MinPin puppies in December 1994. The owner of the puppies, John Batchie, was a house painter in Escondido who lived in the upstairs portion of a converted barn on his […]

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